There are some data leaks that make you shake your head and wonder about how a firm responded to a ransomware attack. This is one of them. Cadre Services (previously known as Premier Staffing) is a Wisconsin-based company providing employment and staffing services for office professionals. They have been in business since 1994. In a…
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Casio discloses data breach impacting customers in 149 countries
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Japanese electronics manufacturer Casio disclosed a data breach impacting customers from 149 countries after hackers gained to the servers of its ClassPad education platform. Casio detected the incident on Wednesday, October 11, following the failure of a ClassPad database within the company’s development environment. Evidence suggests that the attacker accessed customers’ personal…
KwikTrip all but says IT outage was caused by a cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Kwik Trip has released another statement on an ongoing outage, all but confirming it suffered a cyberattack that has led to IT system disruptions. Kwik Trip is a US chain of over 800 convenience stores and gas stations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, also operating under the name Kwik Star in Illinois,…
Henry Schein Inc. discloses cyberattack
Newsday reports: Henry Schein Inc., Long Island’s largest publicly traded company, said that a “cybersecurity incident” it discovered Saturday affected some of its manufacturing and distribution businesses. “Henry Schein promptly took precautionary action, including taking certain systems offline and other steps intended to contain the incident, which has led to temporary disruption of some of Henry…
D-Link confirms data breach after employee phishing attack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach linked to information stolen from its network and put up for sale on BreachForums earlier this month. The attacker claims to have stolen source code for D-Link’s D-View network management software, along with millions of entries containing personal information of customers and employees, including…
Colonial Pipeline was hacked. No, wait, Accenture was hacked. No, wait….. untangling claims. (2)
By, now, there’s been a lot of buzz by some claims made by RansomedVC on their leak site and on their Telegram channel. In their post this afternoon, RansomedVC claimed that (1) Rob Lee of Dragos somehow cheated someone called “fooble,” and as a result, (2) RansomedVC was going to leak files that Lee had…